A Londoner claims he was banned from boarding two flights for wearing too many clothes as he tried to board a British Airways plane.

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In a bizarre bid to avoid paying excess fees, Mr Hawaii donned his extra clothing in an attempt to board the flight. He was still refused entry and the dispute escalated into a row after he confronted security staff about the incident.

I'm going to guess the actual reason he was denied boarding was because he was being disruptive, not because he was "wearing too many clothes". It's not entirely clear from the article, but I wonder when he was told he needed to pay a fee for his bag he put on all his clothes right there in the terminal and probably made a scene about it?

I seem to recall something​ like this coming up a few years ago. If my vague memory is.correct, some European airlines denied people boarding (or said they would?) if the passengers were wearing excessive clothing as a way to evade the bag fees. Anyway, I definitely encountered this concept before.

Just as an excuse for a rant, it does annoy me the way airlines encouraged everybody for years to use carry-on bags only by starting to charge extra for hold luggage (so that the airline didn't have to pay so much for baggage handlers), thus leading to all the overhead lockers being stuffed with cases and the extra hassle of having luggage everywhere, and now that it's got to the point that the hand luggage commonly no longer fits in the actual space available and ends up having to be put in the hold anyway, they're trying to blame passengers for it and starting to try to charge for hand luggage as well (and technically this rant is too long to fit into a single sentence, but I've managed to squeeze it in anyway).

I started carrying luggage on after a string of lost luggage incidents, including one in which I flew from Detroit to Buffalo for a weekend and my bag went to LA. By the time I got it back it was time to go home and I'd been borrowing clothes from my fling/host all weekend.

Not so much a change of clothes but I always keep at least a week of my medication plus a script if possible in my carry on.

But for another lost luggage story. Back in the early 80's my Aunt and Uncle fly around the world to various countries in Europe and North America and then had their luggage go astray in their domestic flight from Sydney to Brisbane. (or maybe it was Sydney to Townsville)

To be fair, g-we blame them for the lack of amenities and cramped seating when many people pick flights based on who has the lowest price.

To an extent, except that after a while these policies started to be picked up even by the more expensive airlines because they couldn't compete otherwise. The idea that markets always lead to "choice" doesn't seem quite right to me - It seems that just as often they end up restricting your "choice" to the thing that's most popular even if it's not what you want.